Unemployed instructors
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Perhaps you might ask how many underemployed Flight Instructors there are out there.
Things don't change much in that part of the industry. Schools with just enough work for 2 instructors, but with 10 working casual. So everybody gets 5 hours per week if they're lucky.
Sad, isn't it?
Things don't change much in that part of the industry. Schools with just enough work for 2 instructors, but with 10 working casual. So everybody gets 5 hours per week if they're lucky.
Sad, isn't it?
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Do you mean people who hold instructor ratings but have never actually instructed, or previously employed instructors who are currently doing something else, but would prefer to be instructing again? There is a BIG difference.
Being able to fly from the right hand seat, have sticky label in your logbook and give a brief that is word for word what your handout says, does NOT a flying instructor make. Sadly many wannabees are sucked in by the sausage factories and come out with a worthless qualification, because unless they get a job "in house" no-one else can affford the time and money required to actually get these people to a stage where they can safely be let lose with a living breathing student, (and do the paperwork correctly afterwards.)
I find that people that have done a one-on-one part time course with lots of back-seating are of a much higher standard, and much more employable, than those who have been mass produced.
Good luck!
Being able to fly from the right hand seat, have sticky label in your logbook and give a brief that is word for word what your handout says, does NOT a flying instructor make. Sadly many wannabees are sucked in by the sausage factories and come out with a worthless qualification, because unless they get a job "in house" no-one else can affford the time and money required to actually get these people to a stage where they can safely be let lose with a living breathing student, (and do the paperwork correctly afterwards.)
I find that people that have done a one-on-one part time course with lots of back-seating are of a much higher standard, and much more employable, than those who have been mass produced.
Good luck!
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I am one of the above mentioned soles who is defined "Unemployed". Though when I was "Employed" I was earning about the same as an "Unemployed Person living on a Government Surfing Scholarship". So I am now working in another field unrelated to Aviation to save up the $$$ to afford to Instruct again. It was a great experience that allowed me to teach something I love and to also meet a great bunch of enthusiastic people along the way.
Pity Instructors get paid **** or I would have done it for ever.....
Pity Instructors get paid **** or I would have done it for ever.....
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I think instructors should be qualified to instruct. Pilots fresh out of their commercial rating and a brand new instructor rating may be paper qualified, but they certainly are not equipped to give quality instruction to new (or any other type of) students.
Classroom instruction may be okay, but even then they do not have a catalogue of experience available to pass on to wannabes.
This debate has been around for years however I think the status quo will remain for some time to come.quality
Classroom instruction may be okay, but even then they do not have a catalogue of experience available to pass on to wannabes.
This debate has been around for years however I think the status quo will remain for some time to come.quality
